Come Laugh At These American Folks Struggling To Answer Questions About Football… (Video)

In which intrepid Youtuber Baha Salamah traipses around the UCLA campus, vox-popping students with questions about the insanely popular, almost entirely global sport that the majority of America knows (or cares) absolutely zippo about so that we, the enlightened hoards, can giggle at their silly, clueless ‘Murican answers…

Now before y’all Yanks start with your whoopin’, cussin’ and a-hollerin’, we’re well aware that the following video isn’t accurately indicative of the U.S view of soccer, that the cross section of questionees was skewed from the get-go and that the MLS is more popular than it’s ever been in certain regions of the country.

Yes it would, how ever the point here is that football is a grobal sport that USA dont know much about. American football is really only watched in USA except superbowl (yes their are people out side USA who watch it)

Though their are derby premier league games that get more global viewers than the superbowl.

@Joe – but football is a global sport broadcast in pretty much every country in the world and the MLS is very high profile in the States at the moment.

By contrast, American Football is predominantly watched by those in the US, quite frankly because most of the developed world do not have the patience to watch a game that takes about six hours to finish when you factor in the constant commercial breaks (sorry, very important time outs).

The guy in the Arsenal shirt says “I like Adebayor” which is a, shall we say, minority viewpoint amongst Gunner fans.

“Liverton” is fantastic.

Consider that you can go out on the street and find plenty of people who have no idea who the leader of their country is or are unable to name a country in Asia etc. This doesn’t surprise me much.

I know I’m a Yank and I could easily name at least 200 English football clubs and very nearly every member of FIFA (though I’d probably miss a few not-really-countries like New Caledonia, US Virgin Islands, and Wales).

Liverton exists! Liverton United FC, plays in the South West Peninsula League Division One East. Liverton’s in Devon. So maybe that girl’s just got REALLY DEEP KNOWLEDGE. She thought they were talking about their backup keeper Fred Torrez.

How can I explain this to outsiders? The people in America live in a bubble, not reality. They have been brainwashed to some extent about the outside world through media and general widespread stupidity. This is not a matter of football, this is a matter of education. They have become so consumed by the bubble in which they exist, they cannot percieve any other existence and henceforth have become trapped. The only thing from keeping these parochial mindsets from crumpling is the strongest military in the world, which gives people the biggest sense of ethnocentrism the world has ever seen. Its not to my surprise that many englishmen cannot understand them, as they have shown more subjective viewpoints to other cultures.